The development pointed mainly downward on Asia's leading stock exchanges in the initial Tuesday trading.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was down 0.2 percent when the traders took lunch, while the Topix index fluctuated around zero.
The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was simultaneously down 0.3 percent.
The composite index in Shanghai and Shenzhen pointed to minus 0.3 percent and minus 0.6 percent, respectively.
